BH Tilt has set a May 15 VOD and limited theatrical release date for director Oren Peli’s Area 51. Shot in 2008, the alien thriller is presented as found-footage and marks Peli’s only other directorial effort since 2007’s runaway hit Paranormal Activity.

Area 51 centers on three teenagers and the footage they film while exploring the mysterious Area 51 at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.

Nowadays, Peli is a producer. His projects have included Insidious 2 & 3, Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem, and the found footage frightners Chernobyl Diaries, Barry Levinson’s The Bay and the short-lived ABC series “The River.”

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